News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-22
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
EVENTS WORTH REPORTING
BY THE NEWSPAPER MEN.
The Albany, Grocer-The Death of
Gen. Phil. Kearny-A Horr1Dle
Scene at an Execution-A Singu-
lar Advertisement, Etc, Etc.

Scene at an EXecutlOn-h sing u
lar Advertisement Etc, Etc.
THE death of Gen. Phil. Kearny at
Fredericksburg has always been shroud-
ed in mystery. He was killed instantly,
but the circumstances which led to his
death have hitherto been kept very
quiet. Gen. Pierce Young, of Georgia,
has just returned from st. Petersburg,
where he was United States Consul
General. He was Confederate officer
during the war, and says that at Freder-
icksburg he and his command unexpec-
teddy surrounded Kearny and his staff
Young, who had been classmate and
friend of Kearny, motioned to the
Union general to escape. Kearny saw
the signal, but before he could take adj
vantage of it was shot dead by the
rebel troops.
ALIEtT VERHovEN, q student at Law
renee University, Appleton, Wis, has
decided to become O Roman Catholc
priest, and has gone to st. Melnrad,
Ind, for preparation. His wife is to
become Il nm. Mr.. Verhoven owns
valuable property in Milwaukee and in
various parts of Wisconsin, and has
heretofore been n devout Methodist.
There was parallel case some sixteen
years ago in Baltimore. A man and
his wife, two daughters and two sons,
became converted to the Catholic faith,
and all of them engaged in church
work-the father and sons as priests
and the mother and daughters as sis
tiers.
A SYDNEY, Australia, paper relates
that at the execution of a man and wo-
man, within the walls of Brisbene Jail,
n horrible scene was witnessed. The
woman was hanged first, and when the
drop fell, some large vein in the neck
was broken through, and the blood
flowed freely over her body. Death,
however, it is believed, was instantane-
Gus. In few moments after, when
the blood had been washed away,
the man was brought out, and
the rope adjusted around his neck.
Horrible to relate, precisely what had
happened to the woman occurred to the
man, the blood flowing from his neck
i'll stream, probabably from the burst
ing of the jugular vein. At an execu-
ton at Lascaster Castle, England, a
man had to be pushed out of his cell
on to the drop, and there held by three
warders while the executioner performed
his task. All this in a civilized COM
munity, and in the nineteenth century.
HERE'S another laundering lightning
story. 1t comes from Lincoln, Neb.,
where n young girl was dressing in her
room during a thunder storm. Her pug
dog ran in. She clasped it to her bosom.
A flash of lightning instantly killed it.
She was Mortified to find that an image
of her dog had been photographed on
her bosom. There seems to be no way
of removing the picture, which gives
every shade, color, and wrinkle of the
canine form.
FOUR weeks ago farmer G. S. Van
Horne, of Mill Point, n. Y. went home
from the wheat field with sore throat.
The soreness increased, the throat swell
led, and nothing gave relief. Then the
soreness disappeared from the inside,
and with a swellingappeared on the out
side of the throat, and finallya few days
ago the cause of all this discomfort was
apparent when the swelling broke and
from it came q wheat beard an inch
long. Van Horne had taken it into his
mouth, it had lodged in his throat, and
then worked its way through.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, has a big
pickle factory that is supplied with Gu
cumbers from the lands adjoining the
city. This season the supply has
reached 80, 900, 900 cucumbers, those en-
gagged in their production furnishing
from 100000 to 100000 each. An
acre will produce 100000, and they sell
in Fredericksburg at so cents per ZOO.
The object is to get them an inch or an
inch and a half long, and this requires
active picking before they increase this
size. a boy viii pick 5000 in a day.
Picking them thus early increases the
productiveness of the vine, and while
the season lasts, others are appearing in
place of those taken from the vines.
GLEASON, the horse tanner, says that
the word "Whoa" should never be
spoken to horse unless it is desired
that he stop still. A lad near Albany
knows what sound advice this is. He
was on moving machine and fell in
front of the knives. AS he fell he
"Whoa % to his horses and
they stopped. The cutting knife of the
machine was resting on top of the boys
foot when he was taken up. Had the
horses taken single step more the lads
foot would have been mangled.
A NEAT little story comes from Watson
Springs, Ga, to the effect that during
recent freshet watermelon patch was
washed away up the river, and citizen
saw half melon floating along With n
good-sized pig sitting in one end and
eating out of the other end as placidly
as if in pen.
WHERE do all the corks go9 The care
full barkeeper saves his corks, one by
one, until he accumulates a barrelfui,
which he sells for So to men who select
the good ones and dispose of them to
bottlers. The bad ones are ground ND
to make linoleum. If not irredeemablv
bad they are trimmed down and "made
as good as new" for Use in small bottles
or walls. There was time when walters
pocketed the corks pulled from bottles
of costly foreign wine, and for 3 or 4
cents apiece sold them to parties whose
champagne vineyards are in New Jersey:
but something like a safeguard has late
ly been thrown around the better class
of foreign wines, and there is now not
much demand for corks to do 'srevoly-
ing" business.
AN interesting individual now in Bos-
ton uses the following name and address:
"George r. Lawrence, original tramp
printer, United States" He was born
in Saratoga, N. Y, seventy-five years
ago. Ever since boyhood he has been
iourneyman printer. He has set type
in Europe, Asia, Africa, the West In
dia Islands and in nearly every State and
Territory in the United States. He is a
man of great intelligence, an interest
ing talker and a clever typo.
The iailor of the Pueblo county Jail,
Colorado, permitted one of the prison
ers to play the violin evenings. The
other night the scraping began at an
early hour, and was kept up continuous
ly and vigorously until late, when it
ceased. In the morning the jailOr found
that under cover of the music four pris-
oners had sawed off portion of the win
dow casing, worked q big stone out of
place, and escaped.
A man in Westville, Con-, had a
grudge against a neighbor, and therefor
hunted up an old law enacted in 1850
with which to get even. The law pro-
vides that one rescuing cattle from
pound shall be fined. The neighbor. a
poor woman, allowed her COW to feed
near the house while her son watched
her closely. The animal CHANGED to